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martedì 15 dicembre 2015

Napoli and Roma set a couple of records in the UEFA Cups Group Stage.Napoli won all their 6 matches, scoring 22 goals and conceding 3; their performance is the best in the history of Europa League's Group Stage, as other 6 teams won all the matches in the Group Stage, but not with such a large goal difference (+19).Roma is the worst team to have gone through the Champions League's Group Stage, with only 6 points, 11 goals scored and 16 conceded. Also Zenit in 2013/2014 made 6 points and passed the round, but with a goal difference of -4.

sabato 12 dicembre 2015

According to the ECRS, after the group stage the top three teams in the European Cups are the same as after the 5th matchday:1) Krasnodar (Russia), with 237,80 points.2) Rapid Wien (Austria), with 225,01 points.3) Saint-Étienne (France), with 202,65 points.Krasnodar and Rapid won the last match, while Saint-Étienne drew.The best team in Champions League until now is Wolfsburg (Germany), who are at the 5th position with 196,11 points.The worst team still in the competition is Sevilla (Spain), with 76,66 points (97th position). The complete ranking is here.

giovedì 10 dicembre 2015

Real Madrid's victory against Malmoe 8-0 on last Tuesday equalled the biggest victory in the history of the Champions League group stage.The result equals Liverpool's 8-0 win against Besiktas on 6 November 2007, when Real manager Rafa Benitez was in charge.Cristiano Ronaldo scored four goals, Benzema three and Kovacic one.Ronaldo, already the top scorer in the history of CL with 88 goals, is also the first player to score more than 10 goals in the group stages in one edition (he scored 11 in 6 matches).

martedì 1 dicembre 2015

In the 5th Champions League matchday, played last week, Roma managed to worsen a record they already held: they lost for the 3rd time (against 3 different teams) conceding at least 6 goals in a CL non-qualifying round.They lost 1-6 away against Barcelona, after having lost 1-7 in 2006-2007 in the Quarter-finals against Manchester United, and again 1-7 last year at home against Bayern Munich in the group stage.Roma were already the only team to have lost twice conceding at least 7 goals.